PARLOR GREENS: Jolene
STONE MONKEY
29/09/2025
Famously, the lyrics to Dolly Parton’s song Jolene are about the eponymous character taking someone else’s man. At least potentially. After all, we only ever
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THE LIBRARY ARCHIVE: The Galata Extraction/ The Two Akiras (Vinyl 7″) Ltd./ and-numbered
STONE MONKEY
29/09/2025
The word ‘monster’ was invented for 45s like this. So was the phrase ‘future classic.’ I’ve been jonesing for The Galata Extraction since the first
TOM CARUANA: Penguin Strut/ Pole Star (Vinyl 7″)
STONE MONKEY
25/09/2025
If your experience of penguin-related funk to date is Rufus Thomas’s Funky Penguin you’d be justifiably wary of the concept of flightless Antarctic seabirds in
THE WAX PREACHERS: Aldgate East/ Gamma Ray (Vinyl 7″)/ The Holy Mountain/ Sun Trap (Vinyl 7″)
STONE MONKEY
25/09/2025
Nothing for ages and then two come along at once? It’s ‘yes and no’ – as the monkey’s old mate Bri used to say. It’s
EMMELINE feat. MARINA B: LittleMissSixty
STONE MONKEY
20/09/2025
Obviously, nineties retro is by now well-embedded in the mainstream. And thank god for that because the additional breeze generated by baggy jeans and giant
NEMESSIO: Hey Hey (Vinyl 7″)
STONE MONKEY
14/09/2025
If you’d previously heard of Nemessio’s holy grail 1979 Afro-Latin funk classic Hey Hey and weren’t one of the select few who possessed a copy,
LACK OF AFRO: Keeping Me Strong
STONE MONKEY
14/09/2025
It’s another four-to-the-floor glitterball bomb from Lack Of Afro ahead of the forthcoming Love Dealer LP with Keeping Me Strong. And like predecessors Walls Start
THE DIASONICS: Larks
STONE MONKEY
14/09/2025
The third single from forthcoming LP Ornithology by cinematic soul outfit The Diasonics is just out. And like both the LP and previous singles Oriole
MADMADMAD: Small Talk
STONE MONKEY
14/09/2025
Here we are then, the third early-eighties dance-punk-influenced breakbeat powered single to be released from MadMadMad’s four-track EP titled Run dropping at the start of
ANDY COOPER & DJ ROBERT SMITH: All That Mess (Vinyl 7″)
STONE MONKEY
10/09/2025
A top score for the Breakbeat Paradise label in dropping one of the most essential dancefloor hip-hop cuts of the year. Yes, it’s the All